Everyday Better with Leah Smart

Everyday Better with Leah Smart

Everyday Better is your guide to creating positive change at work, at home, in your relationships, and beyond. Each week, Leah Smart, LinkedIn's Senior Editor and a certified coach specializing in self-improvement, shares inspiring conversations with trusted voices and curates research-backed strategies to help you navigate transitions, challenges, and uncertainties with clarity and intention. Because work and the rest of your life don’t exist in silos, and what happens in one always finds its way into the other. Discover fresh perspectives, get unstuck, and take small steps every day, toward the life you want. New episodes every Tuesday.

Episodes

The Year for Irrational Hope: Gabby Bernstein on Accessing Unshakable Faith

January 20, 2026 • 38 mins
In the third episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with spiritual teacher and bestselling author Gabby Bernstein for a conversation about fear, faith, and why changing your mindset and the energy you bring to the world is how to real change. From navigating uncertainty with irrational hope to making small daily choices that shift your energy, this episode offers a practical path to creati...
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The Year for Irrational Hope: Debbie Millman on the 10-Year Plan

January 13, 2026 • 36 mins
In the second episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with legendary designer, author, educator, and podcast host Debbie Millman to explore the power of the 10-year plan. Originally taught to Debbie by her mentor Milton Glaser, this visioning exercise is about suspending limiting beliefs and imagining an ideal day ten years from now without worrying about how it will happen. Debbie share...
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The Year for Irrational Hope: Bruce Feiler on Navigating a “Lifequake”

January 6, 2026 • 51 mins
In the first episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with bestselling author Bruce Feiler about lifequakes – the major transitions that upend our lives, whether we choose them or not. From career changes and relationships to loss, parenthood, and global uncertainty, Bruce explains why expecting a linear life creates so much stress, and why most of us are actually in transition far more ofte...
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Wintering: How to Weather Difficult Times

December 30, 2025 • 44 mins
As we approach the new year, we’re bringing back one of our favorite episodes of Everyday Better, where Leah sits down with Katherine May, author of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. Each winter, life slows down. It’s dark and cold, yet the season offers an opportunity for rest.  In Wintering, Katherine shares the story of navigating a personal ‘winter’ – a challenging period of time during which she re...
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Forget Trends, Follow Your Gut: Bobbi Brown’s Life and Work Philosophy

December 16, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode, Bobbi Brown, founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and Jones Road, speaks openly about the challenges of building her businesses, and what it felt like when a major change turned her world upside down. She shares how she navigated the shock, the anger—and the unexpected freedom—of starting over. She and Leah explore what it takes to navigate sudden change, trust your gut, and start over in a way that feels true. If you...
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The Courage to Choose Plan A: How Sister Monica Clare Embraced Her Calling

December 2, 2025 • 27 mins
Are you feeling stuck in a career you find meaningless, wondering if you’ll ever find your true calling? This week on Everyday Better, Leah Smart sits down with Sister Monica Clare — an Episcopal nun, spiritual counselor, and the creator behind the TikTok account @nunsenseforthepeople. Her path to the convent was anything but direct. For decades, she chased one career after another in Hollywood — acting, advertising, comedy, PR — ...
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Core Values 101: A Step-by-Step Guide for Finding Your Inner Compass

November 18, 2025 • 30 mins
Today, we’re bringing back one of our favorite episodes of Everyday Better, where Leah walks us through one of her essential personal growth exercises: defining your core values. When you're facing a tough decision and unsure which path to take, a clearly defined set of values can equip you with the clarity and confidence you need to move forward.  After explaining her own approach to uncovering what truly matters, Leah revisits s...
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Former BBC Journalist Shares the One Communication Habit That Builds Trust

November 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Have you ever been in a high-stakes conversation where you tried to communicate clearly only to have the other person talk past you? Or maybe you’ve noticed yourself zoning out when others speak because you’re doing mental math on how you’ll respond.  When it comes to difficult or sensitive conversations, so many of our grievances could be solved with deep listening. It’s a way of listening that encourages each person to hear what...
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The Atlantic’s CEO on the Power of Doing Hard Things

October 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Nicholas Thompson is a writer, a father, a CEO, and a champion long-distance runner. Nick says that running has taught him how to navigate the hardest things in life. This conversation is about running, but it’s really about what changes when we commit to doing hard things. Running has been a part of Nick’s life since his childhood, but it wasn’t until his forties that his running career skyrocketed. Even as he took on the demandi...
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Eli Rallo on Surviving Gen Z’s Quarter-Life Crisis

October 21, 2025 • 29 mins
Before she became a TikTok star, Eli Rallo had a clear vision for what her post-grad years would look like: she’d have a fulfilling career, fabulous friends, and would finally "feel like an adult." Instead, she found herself struggling with social anxiety, a directionless career, and a nagging fear that she’d never figure it all out: enter the 'quarter-life crisis.' Eli started sharing her unfiltered experiences online, building a...
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Engineering A Happier Life with Tal Ben-Shahar

October 14, 2025 • 43 mins
We all want to be happier. But how do we get there?  Former professor of the most popular course at Harvard, Tal Ben-Shahar is a world-renowned positive psychology expert and author who has dedicated his life to understanding how we can become happier, both individually and collectively. Research reveals something surprising: chasing happiness directly is the wrong strategy. This week on Everyday Better, Tal shares the science-ba...
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Are You Abandoning Yourself to Avoid Conflict? This Survival Instinct Might Be the Culprit

October 7, 2025 • 33 mins
We’ve all heard of “fight, flight, freeze,” but there’s a fourth survival instinct that’s harder to spot. “Fawning” can look like people-pleasing, and it’s often applauded in society. But over time, it can wear down your ability to feel safe when someone close to you feels unhappy, disappointed or upset. And it can lead to overly focusing on what other people think, instead of being in-tune with yourself.  So how do you know when...
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The Only Time Management Technique That Works With Author Oliver Burkeman

September 30, 2025 • 43 mins
Oliver Burkeman is a journalist, author and former “productivity geek.” His bestselling book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals outlines a saner approach to managing your time in a world of never-ending demands and distractions.  On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, Oliver explains why all of the tools and techniques meant to save us time and maximize our productivity ultimately make us feel more stressed and s...
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Gretchen Rubin: How to Make Hard Decisions

September 23, 2025 • 46 mins
In honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school… but should have. This week on the show, Gretchen Rubin—best-selling author of The Happiness Project—lets us into one of her secrets of adulthood: how to make decisions.  We’re all constantly making decisions, big and small. As we get older and become the “adults” in the ...
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Case Kenny: How to Become an Optimist

September 16, 2025 • 36 mins
In honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school, but should have. This week on the show, mindfulness educator Case Kenny explains how we can change our mindsets and find a more optimistic outlook. If you watch the news, you won’t find much to be optimistic about. To realists, optimism might seem like denying reality. B...
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Maya Shankar: How to Navigate Life’s Biggest Transitions

September 9, 2025 • 30 mins
In honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school, but should have. This week on the show, cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, Maya Shankar, reveals what happens to us when we encounter unexpected and unwanted changes in our lives.  Finding a way to deal with disappointment, shock and un...
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Esther Perel: How to Balance Work, Family, and Fulfillment

September 2, 2025 • 35 mins
In honor of Back-to-School season, throughout September, Everyday Better is sharing conversations inspired by the essential life skills we didn’t learn in school, but should have. This week on the show, world-renowned psychotherapist Esther Perel diagnoses our cultural obsession with work and offers a path forward. As children, we’re taught to measure ourselves by gold stars and report cards, and many of us carry those lessons int...
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The Enneagram: A Path to Discovering Who You Really Are

August 26, 2025 • 54 mins
Bea Chestnut is a psychotherapist, consultant and globally-recognized expert on the enneagram, a personality typing system based on ancient spiritual traditions. For the past 27 years, Bea has studied, written about and taught the enneagram in both therapeutic and business settings. She uses it as a map for guiding her clients towards a deeper understanding of themselves and others. On this week’s episode of Everyday Better, we ar...
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Why Learning To Disappoint People Is the Key to an Authentic Life

August 19, 2025 • 37 mins
On paper, Amber Rae had a dream life: she lived in Mexico with her husband and business partner. She was a budding memoirist and a speaker, teaching people how to be true to themselves and find emotional clarity. But beneath the surface, Amber felt disconnected and unfulfilled. Then one day she woke up. She realized she had built her entire life around the expectations of others and she set out to do something different. This wee...
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What Your Self-Talk Says About You, and How To Change It

August 12, 2025 • 39 mins
Have you ever made a mistake and immediately thought, “I’m so stupid, what’s wrong with me?” Suddenly, you’re not just seeing a mistake, you’re facing a wall of shame, anxiety, distress and procrastination.  Today, Leah and therapist Kimberley Quinlan discuss why being hard on yourself won’t actually make you perform any better, and how we can use self-compassion as a tool for recovering from a failure and moving faster towards ou...
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